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Nagios vs HostedMetrics: What are the differences?
Developers describe Nagios as "Complete monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, applications, and services". Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public License. On the other hand, HostedMetrics is detailed as "Hosted and managed open-source monitoring tools". Hosted and fully managed versions of the popular open-source monitoring tools Grafana, Prometheus, and InfluxDB, packaged as turnkey solutions for application, infrastructure, and IoT monitoring.
Nagios and HostedMetrics can be categorized as "Monitoring" tools.
Some of the features offered by Nagios are:
- Monitor your entire IT infrastructure
- Spot problems before they occur
- Know immediately when problems arise
On the other hand, HostedMetrics provides the following key features:
- Instant Start
- Collect and make use of metrics without the hassle of running, scaling, and maintaining a metrics platform
- Reduces costs by offering sensibly pre-configured, productive, hosted and managed tools to collect and visualize the metrics that you need to understand your systems, processes, and code
Nagios is an open source tool with 60 GitHub stars and 37 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Nagios's open source repository on GitHub.
Decisions about HostedMetrics and Nagios
Matthias Fleschütz
Teamlead IT at NanoTemper Technologies · | 2 upvotes · 124.9K views
- free open source
- modern interface and architecture
- large community
- extendable I knew Nagios for decades but it was really outdated (by its architecture) at some point. That's why Icinga started first as a fork, not with Icinga2 it is completely built from scratch but backward-compatible with Nagios plugins. Now it has reached a state with which I am confident.
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What is HostedMetrics?
Hosted and fully managed versions of the popular open-source monitoring tools Grafana, Prometheus, and InfluxDB, packaged as turnkey solutions for application, infrastructure, and IoT monitoring.
What is Nagios?
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and
released under the GNU General Public License.
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What are some alternatives to HostedMetrics and Nagios?
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
Zabbix
Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring and application monitoring of millions of metrics.
OpenCensus
It is a set of libraries for various languages that allow you to collect application metrics and distributed traces, then transfer the data to a backend of your choice in real time. This data can be analyzed by developers and admins to understand the health of the application and debug problems.